Friday 30th
April 1915: The 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment is still in trenches to
the left of Hill 60. The adjutant reports that a
draft of three officers and three hundred other ranks arrived at Ouderdom this
morning. One officer and one hundred of these men will sent tonight to join
their new comrades in the trenches. As these men are new to the war such a
large number all at once would be a challenge for the veterans to train in all
the ways of a soldier on active service in the conditions peculiar to this war
and untrained men are likely to get themselves killed quickly. The rest of the
new arrivals will be integrated gradually as those preceding them acclimatise
to their new surroundings and duties.
The adjutant reports there is some difficulty in getting stores and
supplies such as ammunition, water and food to the trenches at the moment owing
to constant and persistent shelling of all roads and approaches by the enemy.
He wonders if this means a German attack is on the way.
Source: X550/2/5
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